refugee camps

No ivory tower here: how academics are affected by research in unsettling contexts like refugee camps, prisons and rape-crisis centres.
A frequent refrain voiced about academic
institutions is that there is too much “ivory tower” research divorced from the
realities…

An article on boredom features a research paper by Marlen de la Chaux, a PhD student at Cambridge Judge Business School. During a fieldwork trip in Kenya, Marlen noticed that life in refugee camps imposes “immense boredom” and people are…

An article co-authored by Corinna Frey, PhD candidate at Cambridge Judge Business School, looks at how technical innovations could improve lives of people in refugee camps. “Applied responsibly, technology can give humanitarian ethical ideals new life. In the process, it…

An article co-authored by Corinna Frey, PhD candidate at Cambridge Judge Business School, is among ten best articles about refugees according to Open Migration. Corinna’s article looks at how technical innovations could improve lives of people in refugee camps. “Applied…

Lorraine Charles, Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, publishes new report on the economic opportunities and challenges for Palestinians and Lebanese in the shadow of the Syrian crisis.
Sharq.org, an NGO in Lebanon that develops collections of oral…

PhD candidate Corinna Frey, Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses how humanitarian organisations are operating in a challenging environment, constantly on the move to tackle global emergency and refugee crises.
Acute famine in the Horn of Africa, an impending food crisis…

Entrepreneurship initiatives can fill the 'institutional void' of long-term refugee camps, says paper authored at Cambridge Judge Business School.
At a time of global focus on refugee issues due to the war in Syria and other displacement, new research from…